Giuseppe Lugli

Giuseppe Lugli ( born July 18, 1890 in Rome, † December 6, 1967 ) was an Italian classical archaeologist and topographer.

Life and work

Giuseppe Lugli graduated from the University of Rome, where he received his doctorate in 1913. From 1914 to 1923 he was an assistant at the Institute of Archaeology in Rome. In 1933 he accepted a position on the Roman Chair of Roman topography, which had been fifty years before set up for Rodolfo Lanciani. Two years before his retirement in 1960, affiliated with the Department substantive orientation of the ancient topography of the whole of Italy was extended. Lugli also taught after his retirement until 1965 on. In 1960 he became director of the Scuola Nazionale di Archeological Museum.

Lugli first explored the Roman suburban villas. Even his doctoral thesis was devoted to the Villa of Domitian in the Alban Hills. This was followed by studies on the villa of Lucius Verus on the Via Claudia, to the villa of Herodes Atticus, the Villa of Maxentius on the Via Appia, the villa Hadriana in Tivoli and many more. In 1923, he ran with the support of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Unione Nazionale Accademica the founding of the format Italiae, a large-scale comprehensive plan to ancient topography of Italy. In this context, he could his most expansive topographical studies, those present to Anxur - Tarracina and Circeii on the carrier Pomptinus, in two volumes in 1926 and 1928. At the same time he continued in these works standards for the further development of the format Italiae.

In Lazio, he turned further mainly researching late republican buildings from the last two centuries BC to. But his interests were certainly more broadly, as his employment with the Porta Nigra in Trier, the amphitheater in Arles and Nîmes, as well as the Late Roman Villa of Piazza Armerina showed. His interest here was always focused on structural analysis and understanding of functions and functional contexts, the precise observational evidence not only allowed the dating itself unnamed buildings but also their integration into a lived cultural context. Fruit of this comprehensive and yet accurate studies was his 1957 published book " La tecnica edilizia romana, con particolare riguardo a Roma e Lazio ", which is a standard work on Roman civil engineering today.

As early as 1952 he gave the eight -volume work " Fontes ad urbis Romae topographiam veteris pertinentes " to the written sources of Ancient Rome out. Rome, its topography and its ancient monuments were always at the center of his scientific work: the Basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline, the Casa della Farnesina, the Temple of Augustus, the smaller monuments in the Roman Forum, the Temple of the Lares and Penates on the Velia and the atrium Libertatis. He also devoted himself to urban problems such as topic insulae and population pressure or defense based on the Servian walls. For the Tabula Imperii Romani he contributed the music to Rome, Florence, Palermo and Trieste, even if only last named was published in a final form.

Lugli was a member of many academies and received numerous awards. In the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, he was until 1946 secretary of the class Scienze Morali. For the Union Académique International he was Chairman from 1924 until his death in the Commission for the map series Forma Orbis Romani.

Memberships and Honors

  • Member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeological
  • Member of the Accademia di San Luca
  • Member of the Accademia dei Lincei
  • Member of the Accademia di Archeological, Lettere ed Arti of Naples
  • Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium
  • Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
  • Honorary member of the Romanian Academy
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Leuven

Publications (selection )

  • La Villa di Domiziano sui Colli Albani. P. & C. Maglione Strini, Roma 1918.
  • La Zona Archaeological Roma. Libreria di sci e lettere, Rome 1924.
  • Forma Italiae. Regio I, Latium et Campania. Vol I, Ager Pomptinus, pars I, Anxur - Tarracina. Danesi, Rome 1926.
  • Forma Italiae. Regio I, Latium et Campania. Vol I, Ager Pomptinus, pars II, Circeii. Danesi, Rome 1928.
  • Il Foro Romano. Libreria di sci e lettere, Rome 1930.
  • I Monumenti antichi di Roma e Suburbio. 4 volumes, G. Bardi, Rome 1930-40.
  • I Sanctuaries celebri del Lazio antico. Luciano Morpurgo, Rome 1932.
  • Le grandi opere pubbliche. Bardi, Rome 1934.
  • With Goffredo Filibeck: Il porto di Roma e l' imperial agro portuense. Officio dell'Istituto Italiano d' Arti Grafiche, Rome 1935.
  • Monumenti minori del Foro romano. Bardi, Rome 1947.
  • Foro romano, Palatino. Bardi, Rome 1949.
  • Roma nei suoi Monumenti. A. Signorelli, Rome 1950.
  • Fontes ad urbis Romae topographiam veteris pertinentes. Band 1-8, Rome 1952-1965.
  • La Tecnica edilizia romana: con particolare riguardo a Roma e Lazio. Bardi, Rome 1957.
  • L Anfiteatro Flavio. Bardi, Rome 1960.
  • Tabula Imperii Romani: sulla base della Carta internazionale del mundo alla scala di 1:1,000,000: foglio L33, Trieste ( Tergeste ). Litografia Artistica Cartografica, Florence 1961.
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